A great step towards independence is a good-humored stomach, one that is willing to endure rough treatment.
Magna pars libertatis est bene moratus venter et contumeliae patiens.
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.
Fortune is less severe against those of lesser degree, and God strikes what is weak with less power.
Nature has given us the seeds of knowledge, not knowledge itself.
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